The Rider Broncs are the athletic teams of Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, United States. They compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. MAAC teams compete in the NCAA's Division I. Most of the members are Catholic or formerly Catholic institutions; the only exception is the private but secular Rider...

 (MAAC). Rider is the only member which is not a Catholic institution. For wrestling only, Rider is an associate member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). The school is a Division I member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 (NCAA).

The intercollegiate sports

College athletics

College athletics refers primarily to sports and athletic competition organized and funded by institutions of tertiary education . In the United States, college athletics is a two-tiered system. The first tier includes the sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sport governing bodies...

 program at Rider was started by coach Clair Bee

Clair Bee

Clair Francis Bee was an American basketball coach, who led the team at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York to undefeated seasons in 1936 and 1939, as well as two National Invitation Tournament titles...

 in the 1920s. Two of the school's most famous athletic alumni are former Notre Dame basketball

Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The program competes in the Big East Conference of NCAA Division I. The school holds two national championships in...

 coach and current ESPN

ESPN

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 sportscaster Digger Phelps

Digger Phelps

Richard "Digger" Phelps is a former American college basketball coach, most notably of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team from 1971 to 1991. Since 1993, he has served as an analyst on ESPN.-Career:...

, who played basketball at Rider from 1959 to 1963 and Jason Thompson

Jason Thompson (basketball)

Jason Carlton Thompson is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. He was the starting center of the Rider University men's basketball team until 2008...

 who played basketball at Rider from 2004 to 2008 and was drafted by the Sacramento Kings

Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. They are currently members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

 with the 12th pick of the 2008 NBA Draft.

Men's baseball

See footnote. See also: College baseball

College baseball

College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. Compared to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a less significant contribution to cultivating professional players, as the minor leagues primarily...

The baseball team plays its home games at Sonny Pittaro Field

Sonny Pittaro Field

Sonny Pittaro Field is a baseball venue located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA. It is home to the Rider University Broncs college baseball team of the Division I Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. The facility has a capacity of 2,000 spectators....

 on campus.

Men's wrestling

Women's basketball

See footnote. See also: College basketball

College basketball

College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

Current roster

• 02 Carleign Brown
• 03 Amanda Sepulveda
• 04 Ali Heller
• 05 Alyssa Parsons

• 11 Tammy Meyers
• 12 Shereen Lightbourne
• 13 Shannon Ferguson
• 14 Caitlin Bopp

• 20 Cintella Spotwood
• 22 Lauren Gregg
• 25 Stephanie Wisniewski

• 33 Sarah Homan
• 34 Dior Brown
• 44 Melissa Kowalczyk